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A recent opinion from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and state laws like New Jersey’s new pregnancy accommodation statute highlight the new era of compliance issues facing employers dealing with worker medical situations. Accommodating issues of temporary disabilities ...

A lawyer trying a case constantly is on guard. When something wrong gets said, he needs to object. Right away. But he has to keep an eye on the judge. She may be impatient, wanting to move on. The lawyer ...

Divorce courts may have been getting it wrong when it comes to allowing one spouse to claim a share of the other spouse’s separate property. In rejecting a wife’s claim to half of a $316,000 increase in the value of ...

Language proposed for the next state budget could restore lucrative collection work for some Virginia law firms at the expense of local governments, says an attorney who represents local treasurers around the state. Legislators quietly included provisions in the mammoth ...

Ten years after surrendering his Virginia law license amid federal tax charges and a host of bar complaints, Rickey Gene Young, formerly of Martinsville, has won approval for reinstatement to the legal profession. There are some conditions on Young’s being ...

A fight over legal files has escalated with a motion for sanctions filed by a group of lawyers who left a Richmond personal injury firm to form their own law practice. Richmond Circuit Judge Melvin R. Hughes Jr. heard argument ...

If you want to serve a lawsuit on someone who’s allegedly infringing your social networking app, serve them where they live: online. An Alexandria U.S. District Court has approved service of a trademark infringement suit via Facebook, LinkedIn and email, ...

A Norfolk lawyer is out more than $23,000 on his fee for a lengthy, complicated and emotion-wracked court-appointed case because the state ran out of money as his bill came up for payment at the end of the fiscal year. ...

The ringmaster struts to the stage and strikes a chord on his guitar. The show is off and running, with an enthusiastic crowd very much on board. It’s one of the final performances of a band with a 16-year tradition ...

A couple’s long and winding matrimonial road led to a Chesapeake court’s decision to hear a suit to dissolve their common law marriage. The facts in the case of Richardson v. Richardson (VLW 014-8-019) “are somewhat out of the ordinary,” ...